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Love is the reason for it all

  Dorothy Fields Love is the reason for it all. --Dorothy Fields In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. -- Robert Heinlein What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do...? --Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. --Dr. Seuss A short saying oft contains much wisdom. --Sophocles Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. --Oscar Wilde I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. --Calvin Coolidge The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. --Whitney Young It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing...

Time is the coin of your life

  Carl Sandburg Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. --Carl Sandburg Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. --Sir Winston Churchill You must lose a fly to catch a trout. --George Herbert It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. --Agnes Repplier Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. --Arthur Miller Truth is what stands the test of experience. --Albert Einstein Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. --Frank Zappa Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. --G. K. Chesterton Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. --Martin Luther King Jr. An idea is salvation by imagination. --Frank Lloyd Wright READ MORE

Carry the battle to them

  Harry S Truman Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything. --Harry S Truman I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. --Frank Zappa Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. -- Plato If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. --Henry Ford Indecision may or may not be my problem. --Jimmy Buffett Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. --Thomas Jefferson If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. --Dick Cavett I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. --Albert Einstein One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie, Letter to her brother, 1894 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt, 'This Is My Story,' 1937 READ MORE Check out Lemp...

Birds sing after a storm

  Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? --Rose Kennedy No wise man ever wished to be younger. --Jonathan Swift You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. --Abraham Lincoln The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. --Socrates Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. --Anthony Burgess This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. --Will Rogers If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it. --Joyce Carol Oates I am not young enough...

Tears may be dried up...

Marguerite de Valois Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. --Marguerite de Valois Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. --Henry David Thoreau Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. --Walter Winchell It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. --Jonathan Swift The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. --Elizabeth Taylor To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. --Jane Austen Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. --Jean Paul Richter If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play....

When you play, play hard...

  Theodore Roosevelt When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. --Theodore Roosevelt Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. --Thomas Jefferson Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. --Abraham Lincoln If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. --Agatha Christie I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. --Johnny Carson Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. --Charles Dickens It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. --Jerry Seinfeld The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. --Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a ste...

Love is an act of endless forgiveness...

  Peter Ustinov Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. --Peter Ustinov Nothing endures but personal qualities. --Walt Whitman Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. --Thomas Jefferson Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. --Isaac Asimov Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. --Ralph Waldo Emerson If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. --Mario Andretti It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. --Upton Sinclair A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. --Clare Booth Luce We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe C...

Love protects you from age

  Jeanne Moreau Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. --Jeanne Moreau Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. --Don Marquis Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. --John Quincy Adams Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. --W. C. Fields In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. --Johann von Neumann Good taste is the enemy of comedy. --Mel Brooks Whatever you are, be a good one. --Abraham Lincoln Every hero becomes a bore at last.  --Ralph Waldo Emerson The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. --Norman Mailer It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. --Mark Twain Check out Minyak Terapi Saraf Afya Bidara | 30ml for RM29.90. Get it on Shopee now! https://s.shopee.com.my/4AkDXFfwYL?share_channel_code=1...

An onion can make people cry...

  An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. --Will Rogers Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. --Margaret Millar It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. --Homer When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977 A minute's success pays the failure of years. --Robert Browning The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. --Oliver Wendell Holmes Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. --Abraham Lincoln Nothing fails like success. --Gerald Nachman The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. --Martina Navratilova When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. --Gracie Allen Check out Mus...

What's money?

  Bob Dylan What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. --Bob Dylan Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. --Rita Mae Brown Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. --George S. Patton Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. --Francis Quarles For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. --Virginia Woolf I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. --Joseph Conrad A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. --Nelson Mandela I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. --Edith Sitwell What you do speaks so loud that I can...

When a man says...

  Otto von Bismarck When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. --Otto von Bismarck Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. --Aristotle Be sincere; be brief; be seated. --Franklin D. Roosevelt Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. --Sir Francis Bacon What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? --Henry David Thoreau There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. --James Thurber The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain. --Susan B. Anthony Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. --Samuel Johnson I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. --Mark Twain Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a m...

By all means marry...

  By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. --Socrates The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape... --Pablo Picasso It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. --Henry David Thoreau The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. --Cecil B. DeMille Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. --Eleanor Roosevelt We turn not older with years, but newer every day. --Emily Dickinson One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. --Oscar Wilde You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. -...